Press releases for 11/12/2009

Guest Blog Entry from Scott Draeger, HP Exstream product manager.
Scott joined the digital document industry in 1997, after earning a BA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has more than 10 years of experience in the document composition software industry as both a transactional document designer, service provider and a software vendor. He earned his EDP certification from Xplor and his MBA in 2007 from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management...
Last night as I sat at my desk...

Choosing a turkey used to be pretty simple. Figure out how many people were coming to dinner and get the biggest bird possible to feed the crowd. Now it can be pretty daunting. Here’s some advice to help you decide what’s the right turkey choice for you.
The biggest difference for almost any turkey you choose [...]

FrameMaker,XML,Technical Communication,DITA authoring,PDF,DITA,Image,UI,ScreenCapture
Dear Framers
I hope that you are enjoying working with the RoboScreenCapture software. If you are not much familiar with this tool, then let me explain about it briefly. It is a lightweight screen-capture and image editing tool which comes free with any FM9 and/or TCS2 license.
This post will give you an overview of the RoboScreenCapture tool functionality. Thanks to Rajat, FrameMaker Engineering Manager, for...

In conjunction with the release of Adobe Reader 9.2 and the announcement of Adobe LiveCycle ES2, Adobe Labs is hosting a new automated testing solution for Adobe Reader based on integration with Hewlett Packard Quick Test Professional - Adobe PDF Test Toolkit. We've created this technology for our enterprise customers to support automated testing and validation of PDF Forms workflows, including those hosted by LiveCycle ES2 and SAP.
The Reader integration with HP Quick Test Pro is similar to the...

If you follow this blog, you already know that my colleague Mark Middleton and I offer eSeminars on various topics such as Security, Forms, etc.
Those are deep, hour long eSeminars.
On Friday, November 13, we'll be presenting Thirty Top Tricks for Acrobat 9.
You can register here if you haven't yet.
Since I'm sure not all of you can attend, I've rolled up the Thirty Top Tips for Acrobat 9 into a ten-page, illustrated document so you can try them on your...

As an Adobe employee, I get the "My stuff is broke, tell me how to fix it" in a wondrous variety. My response is usually something to the effect that I'm not the amazing kreskin and then smile. Point is that we usually need a lot of information to even formulate a guess.
However, there is one thing that I like to mention as a general kind of 'catch all'. It's surprising at how often it can cure a user's mysterious problems...

As we discussed here in the past few weeks, the 2009 Adobe Government Assembly took place on November 4 in Washington D.C. The one-day conference focused on the next generation of government, with discussion of transparency, collaboration and citizen participation.
The program included a keynote from Cokie Roberts of ABC News and NPR, as well as presentations from several industry and government executives. Among them was Adobe's Rob Tarkoff, who provided an industry perspective on Open Government. You...

Microsoft International President Jean-Philippe Courtois today joined with other European thought leaders to call for a new era of innovation and creativity in Europe. Courtois is a European Commission Innovation Ambassador this year, part of the EC's Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009.

A short while ago we announced we’d be bringing our How to Build a Web App Business workshop to Boston, Vancouver and Chicago in the coming months. Many of you have been asking about dates, times and places and we’re really excited to let you know our itinerary is in place!
We announced our November 12 [...]

Cold and flu season is no joke. But rather than simply hoping you don’t catch a bug, focus on getting prepared with knowledge, intention and – you may have guessed -stocked shelves! Plus, since getting sick is part of being human, let’s also look at ways to get better faster when the sniffles do [...]

I arrived at Disney for the Children's Miracle Network Classic today in preparation for the Kodak Challenge finale this week and the buzz about Kodak Challenge is everywhere! On the shuttle ride over, the other riders were talking about the Kodak Challenge finale, very excited that Kevin Streelman is going in with a 2-stroke lead. On twitter, Kevin's caddy Michael Collins (@funnycaddy) is tweeting about it - "The money doesn't
mean anything. It's the chance to be the FIRST of something...

Want to thank Srikant Subramaniam from the Oracle Fusion Middleware for Apps team for prompting this post.
As much as we here at Oracle would like to think that all data is in a database -- an Oracle Database at that, the fact is that sometimes ... dare I say it ... data is kept in Excel spreadsheets.
Srikant's team maintains some information in an Excel spreadsheet. To get this data into a nicely formatted PDF file was a tedious process that took 5 to 6 days. Srikant wanted to know if Publisher...

PST Password Recovery Tool version 3.0.1.5
Outlook and Outlook Express email password recovery application
Thursday, Nov12, 2009;
The problem of forgotten or lost passwords is known for all outlook users. All of us should remember various passwords to access our email, blogs and other services. People generally use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail communication and managing personal information. How much loss will you bear if you forget or lost the password of your email and newsgroup accounts? All your...

What is Giveawayoftheday?
Giveawayoftheday.com is a website providing commercial software for free every day. All you have to do is visit the website and download current giveaway and follow some simple steps, then you can have the commercial software for free. Remember the software is only available in 24 hours.
Four Amazing Benefits You Can Get from Giveawayoftheday of AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover on November 17, 2009
AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover Converter will give away for free on November...

SearchCentral uses the new NativeProcess APIs in AIR 2 in order to integrate with Spotlight and provide very fast local file system search. Here's a demo:
The NativeProcess APIs are very simple to use. The code below invokes the mdfind command on OS X, and sets up an event listener to read the results from standard out:
private function onSearch():void
{
var npInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
npInfo.executable = this.mdfindFile; // A reference to the mdfind...

By Ian Selway, Worldwide HP StorageWorks Solution Manager
I've just arrived back from London and I'm looking forward to Day 3 at Microsoft TechEd Berlin. Today we've supported Microsoft in their exhibition area, manning a partner kiosk and demonstrating our LeftHand and EVA integrations with Microsoft Server 2008 R2. We had Matthias Popp from our SSI team present on this integration during Microsoft's Multi-Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2. It was a full session with over 300...

Is agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) all about sprinting i.e. moving stories from product backlog to sprint backlog and then executing iterative cycles of development and testing? IMHO, not really! We all know that certain changes in an application can be complex, critical or have a larger impact and therefore require more planning before they are included in development iterations. Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) accommodate for application planning and long-term complex changes...

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy
On the latest StorageMonkeys.com podcast, the hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley had Greg Shultz of StorageIO and Chad Sakac, VP of VMware Technology Alliance at EMC as their guests to talk about the Acadia announcement. In that podcast, around the 34 minute mark, Greg asked Chad a question about Dave Donatelli, EVP of Enterprise Servers and Networking, and that launched a 10 minute discussion about HP and what Chad described as a lack of...

Emerson South Korea general manager, Patrick Deruytter was in Austin recently. You may recall Patrick from earlier posts about large FPSO projects being performed there. He has an upcoming presentation at FLNG Project Advancement on accelerating FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) project delivery using a main automation contractor approach.
For those unfamiliar with FLNG, it borrows the idea of floating production, storage and offloading by building a liquefied natural gas facility on a tank ship...

The always interesting and informative Preston de Guise has a discussion of source and target deduplication on his blog "The NetWorker Blog". Which is just about as imaginatively named as this blog. Well, he may not be a marketing mad...

Looking for ways to cut costs? EMC is consolidating on Oracle RAC and Oracle Database 11g throughout its data center, which has translated to $3 million in cost avoidance savings to date. Join me for a podcast conversation with Ramesh Razdan, Director of Enterprise Technology Services at EMC Corporation to hear how they have been able to do this and what's next for EMC....$7 million more in savings?

Mike Dominy looks after the retail aspects of Oracle's horizontal assets, such as Siebel, EBS, and Peoplesoft. I recently asked Mike his opinion on a few topics:
1. What are some disruptive technologies for retail?
Web 2.0 and mobility are the two that come to mind immediately.
After the dust settled following the dot com bust, three things happened. One, web and ecommerce technologies evolved and improved. Two, social networks sprung up. Three, retailers started integrating their direct (online...

Ive noticed a discrepancy in the documentation for the 11.1.1. Enqueue and Dequeue Utilities... It doesn't provide much detail on how to execute the command! See Chapter 20 in the 11.1.1 B2B user Guide.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/integration.1111/e10229/enq_deq.htm#CHDFHDCF
The AQ Enqueue java utility is similar to the one in the 10.1.2 version. To use it...
1. Set the CLASSPATH with the following jar files.
MIDDLEWARE_HOME/<SOA_HOME>/soa/modules/oracle.soa.b2b_11...

We have a new release within our CRM family here at Oracle. PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 was released a few days ago. This is the second release since Oracle acquired PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 is designed to:
Dramatically upgrade the user experience with Web 2.0 capabilities including collaboration and greater application interactivity
Address today's CRM business needs with functionally deep applications for marketing, sales, and service that benefit all industries, as well as comprehensive...

The Patch Set 1 release of WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 includes a Technical Preview of WebLogic SCA. In WebLogic SCA, you can write Java applications using Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and expose components as SCA references and services, using SCA semantics configured in a Spring application context.
WebLogic SCA applications run seamlessly in WebLogic Server (via the WebLogic SCA Runtime) and can be used as components in Oracle SOA composites.
Download today.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- VXI Global Solutions Inc. executives began to notice a common denominator in recent years among several of its top employees: a Mahoning Valley point of origin.
VXI saw how those employees were excelling at its various sites, prompting company officials to take a “serious look” at establishing a call center here, said its vice president of operations, Tobias Parrish.
“If they’re that good, what if we had 500 people from the Mahoning Valley...

Jammu, India November 12, 2009 - There are a lot of comedy movies that bring about the required thrill and fun that the audience look for and coming together again is one such movie the 3 idiots. Aamir Khan playing the main role along with the others is going to be one of the great bollywood movies of the coming year. It’s definitely expected to be a good hit and will pump up the joys of many this Christmas. What a great holiday time for people to watch along with their families and...

Atlanta, USA. November 12, 2009 - Walk the path that you’ve never walked before, pamper yourself to the best of the floorings possible in the industry. Anytime of the day if we want to be dazzled by the floor that we walk on, we need to select the best available in the industry. Pamper your feet to the heights available and the best of the options available are with either quality laminate flooring which may or may not be easily available in the market and engineered hardwood flooring...

The Exadata Database Machine Version 2 was released at OpenWorld 2009 to great fanfare. Since its unveiling, I've been getting a steady stream of questions from E-Business Suite customers who are intrigued by Exadata V2's potential.All 11gR2 Database Applications are CompatibleThe E-Business Suite and other OLTP applications will run on the Exadata V2 system if they're certified with the 11gR2 Database on Linux. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i is certified on the 11gR2 database, so...

Bastian Fischer, Vice President and EMEA General Manager for Oracle Utilities, participated this week in the first Digital Europe steering group committee hosted by the European Commision. The topic? Smart grids and the critical role they will play in EMEA.
Bastian comments:
"Global warming is at the top of the international political and business agenda and the European Union is taking a leading role through the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme which will require companies...

Along with the new JDeveloper release we also put out a new version of the ADF Faces components demo.
This is a stand alone WAR file that you can download and run on your own machine (or watch the hosted version). The WAR contains a demo of each one of the ADF Faces components as well as demos of various framework features like the push to client, dialogs, drag and drop etc.
It also have skinning information for the components, and the complete Javadoc for all of them.
Two key things that are new in...

Unless you were paying close attention the last few weeks, you probably missed an important series of events and announcements in the world of interoperability standards for the learning industry.
One of the "beauties" of standards and standards organizations is that there are so many of them, but few actually are what they claim to be - standards. In my opinion, getting to be a standard should require, at a minimum, 1) a common design specification; 2) created by a community of trading partners...

Taking place on November 17, 2009, the Oracle EMEA Applications Virtual Trade Show will allow customers in a virtual conference environment to hear how Oracle Applications can help with strategies for today's new times. Smart companies know that corporate excellence is the new hallmark of competitiveness. That means managing your operations more efficiently, embracing transparency and sustainability in all your business practices, and delivering breakthrough innovation where and when it matters most...

In this video on YouTube, Folia Grace, VP Applications Product Marketing gives a heads up on the eagerly awaited Oracle EMEA Applications Virtual Trade Show taking place on November 17, 2009. Take a look and get a feel for what this trade show is all about. http://www.youtube.com/user/OracleEMEAWebVideo?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

A new video and webcast have been placed on the Tuxedo home page. In the video Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President Oracle Fusion Middleware, introduces Tuxedo as a strategic offering in the of Oracle Application Grid portfolio, and the leading C, C++, and COBOL application server. The webcast, also by Hasan Rizvi with Ajay Patel, Vice President Oracle Fusion Middleware, describes the reasons customer are increasingly rehosting their mainframe applications onto Oracle Tuxedo to increase agility, improve...

Unfortunately we have found a (meanwhile confirmed) bug, that manifests itself in completely blocking your jdeveloper UI due to a race condition between two threads).
This happens if you use the expression builder inside a bpel process, and type a part of an expression, and then use ctrl+space to complete it. Once you start filling in the needed info (e.g. partname), jdev will suddenly block (completely).
Bug 9099332 was filed for this.
Workaround: in jdeveloper -> Tools / preferences / SOA...

November 2009 - To popularize any website or product it requires a lot of money to get it advertised effectively to widen its market. Everyone can’t invest a lot of money in advertisement. Some people who tend to advertisement spend lot money in advertising their website in a very ineffective way. Like advertisement done in daily newspaper, it is a welcoming idea to have the advertisement advertised in terms of pixel size. This gives the advantage of advertising effectively with less...